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Using Wildcards to Display Grouping Information

Wildcards enable you to display all or selected group numbers on a leadsheet. The type of group numbers displayed depends on the Grouping type specified in the document settings.

A wildcard is represented by a question mark ("?") and is entered in the Group No. box in place of an actual group number. To view all leadsheet numbers that are between 1 and 3 digits, select a Grouping of L/S and enter "???" in the Group No. box.

Use wildcards in combination with group numbers to narrow the scope of the groupings displayed. The wildcard locates both numbers and letters. Characters are considered to be right-aligned within the mask, and any empty spaces are padded to fill the number of characters defined in the mask.

For a group mask of XX.XXX, where one group is AA and another is A, a Group No. of "A?" with a Grouping of L/S displays all accounts assigned to leadsheet numbers beginning with A followed by any letter or character, so would include only the group AA. A Group No wildcard of "?A" displays any accounts with A in the second position, displaying both group AA and group A.

  • If a group number is missing and the document number corresponds to a group number entered in the Working Trial Balance, Working Papers uses the Document Manager number to build the leadsheet.